San Francisco Street Filth, Human Waste, and Scooter Vandalism
San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell proposed a $13 million budget increase over two years to address the city's crisis of street filth, including human waste and drug paraphernalia. Public Works official Mohammed Nuru and tourism head Joe D'Alessandro noted that the debris is causing conventions to avoid the city. Reports indicate that residents and visitors are encountering human feces on sidewalks, leading to the vandalism of electric scooters.
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00:00 Nah! In celebrating good times and broadcasting live from the Cop with a Drone Star State here in Austin, Tejas in the Clunio. In the morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's gloomy and by the way The Garbage Trucks have already gone by so has the train. I am John C. DuBois. Alright, so you're a little uh little are you under the weather or just congested fine? But it's just like I'm congested. Yeah You got your knees like the traffic by the way yeah nasally The only difference is I don't have potholes Yet yeah, you do ah as if that scourge wasn't enough oh
01:02 Have you run into any of these scooters, these electric scooters in San Francisco? No. Most of them actually go hit... a lot of them they don't report on this but there go driving down the road and then they hit debris or the garbage in the streets or whatever and a lot of me hit human feces and they go flipping They go flipping over heels. No, that's not true I have a report from San Francisco on the latest on the garbage situation On the garbage or on that because these scooters is what I was you know they've now infiltrated Austin these electric scooters there everywhere
01:39 What they're doing in San Francisco is confiscating them because what people do, they leave them all over the place. That's the whole point you're allowed to... The company allows it. They are dropping them off at the bottom of stair steps and dumping everywhere so the city is grabbing them and keeping them. I know a guy who goes out in the middle of night to collect them and then go charge them Yeah, which is what a great job. No it's not a great job But more importantly it really I mean I don't know It's this whole thing is so un-Austin if I can say anything like that to have these scooters And just and everyone's on the sidewalks with them its downtown has become annoying Get off my sidewalk with your damn scooter get those scooters off the sidewalk exactly turning into you
02:29 No, I'm not that way. I think it's fantastic that there are all these scooters everywhere running in the human poop and in the garbage they can't clean up and when I was coming back from that last trip Yeah There was somebody actually who were discussing this on the first class line I wasn't next to that line because I was not a first-class thing I don't see San Francisco as the filthiest Third were first world city there is it's like Calcutta And so they had a they had a discussion of this on the news because they're trying everyone knows this and The guy who is responsible for bringing conventions, and he says they're losing business rightfully So yes, and I have a clip filled with debris litter
03:15 human waste and drug paraphernalia. Mayor Mark Farrell wants to spend nearly 13 million dollars the next two years to clean up the filth The mayor wants five new pit stops like this one sort of one-stop shopping with these dog waste bags and needle disposals 3.5 million dollars will be earmarked for new steam street cleaning equipment DPW's Mohammed Nuru says they're getting hundreds of calls for service every day and we're double and triple shifting our steam cleaners and a lot of our equipment with this funding will be able to buy some more equipment
03:54 The plan will include hiring 44 new cleaning workers who'll target districts which need help the most. Loretta Lawrence says her Excelsior neighborhood is one of them. I have to walk through human feces all over the sidewalks. Some residents are skeptical, they've heard the promises before and i think they're putting a lot of money into programs that aren't working but it is a crisis and we need act Joe D'Alessandro heads SF Travel, the city's convention and visitors agency. We took a short walk down Market Street near the financial district we didn't have to look far before we found trash blocking part of a roadway. The dirty unsafe streets he says are taking a toll.
04:38 Definite groups that have said that they can't come to San Francisco as long as the streets are like this The message from Mayor Farrell time just stop talking trash time to do something about it Is an interesting crossover with this I just... Well, before you go on though. I want to mention at the beginning of that report they talked about this one stop thing where they have a bathroom and then they place your put used needles Yeah And and a doggy bag thing The doggy bag thing is not for dog poop It's for human poop Yeah Welcome to San Francisco the filthiest town it's been run by Democrats forever This shows I'm reading the what is this? Insider
